P.B.S Athletics Day

Today is our athletics day, there are lots of sports that we did. There are 9 station(Activity) we start at Frisbee, we just need to throw the Frisbee in to the hoop. My team is yellow, we have teamwork and we listen to our leader, unfortunately we came 2nd to the A group. Thank you to the Tamaki College student that help to make this event successfully and I also thank Mr. Ogilvie for planning and making this event for us students.  It was so much fun and challenging for our whole group, but we did a pretty good job.

Read Theory Progress

Today for reading we are checking our progress on read theory to see our improvement on our reading. My progress for this year is good and I think I improve a lot than last year. My grade is good it is grade 7 to grade 8, I will do my best to get grade 9 or 10 and my goal is not to go down to grade 6.

P.B.S Book Week - Reading Pathway

This week is book week challenge, different classes around our school are doing different activities based on Book Week. In Learning Space 2 our activities was to make a DLO showing our favourite book from our childhood to Now. My favourite book now is Amulet, it has interesting story, lots of mysteries and adventures.  

All About Meerkats - Book Week Challenge

Meerkat Mail is an amazing picture book written by a highly praised British author, whose name is Emily Gravett. To celebrate book week Mrs Anderson has read three of Emily Gravett's books and has asked us to complete three activities based on the books. The books that have read are: Wolves, Meerkat Mail, and the Big Book of Fears. All three books were written and illustrated by Emily Gravett. The book Meerkat Mail is about a Meerkat who is getting sick of living with his family and throughout the week he went and lived with relatives who live a different lifestyle he is used to. At the end of the book he finally understands why he has to live like he does so he returned home. 

Book Week Challenge - Wolves - Emily Gravett

Today as part of Book Week Mrs Anderson has set another Book Week task for us. First we read one of Emily Gravett's books called Wolves. Everyone enjoyed the book and had a laugh. After reading the book we were to make a DLO based on wolves. We were to make a table: One side which had what we think about wolves and the other side saying what is true about wolves. For example if the myth was Wolves and dogs are related we were to search up if it was true or not and tell why. I really had a fun time doing this.

Do Illustration Matter Why?

This week is our book week, today our activities is to make an analysis to the questions that we answer. The question I choose is Do Illustration matter? My opinion is, illustration is really good because it helps the reader imagine the story and it draws the picture in the readers mind.

World War 1 - Main Disease

This was my second activity. I chose to research about what are the main diseases that happened in World War 1. I learnt that more than 2 million people died of disease and I think it is a very huge amount of people. For this task I worked with Miki.

WW1 Armistice Day - Popular food during WW1

Today for learning we made a DLO that shows a one of the idea that we want to know. I learnt that Maconochie's meat stew and hard biscuit can keep the freshness for long time. We chose to search about What was the popular food in during World War 1. For this task I worked with Miki. 

Venn Diagram - Our Favourite Books

Today I have created a Venn Diagram with Marieta. This Venn diagram shows two different books which is Amulet 1 and Scooby Doo and in the middle shows that comparison the books have in common. I realised that they both are a fiction story. 

3 genre of books we would never read.

Today Nyjah and I have made a DLO on three types of books we would never read... Although we had to give a explanation of why we wouldn't. In the end we decided on Science fiction, Drama and cook books.

Book Week Challenge - New Cover For Our Favourite Book

This week is the Book Week. Today I and my partner Miki made a DLO that shows our new design for favourite book. It was quite hard to find the design because i want a very interesting background.

Armistice Commemoration

Today we commemorate armistice day. WW1 was a tragic war, there are many young soldier that died in the war. That is the reason we commemorate and respect armistice day. One of the soldier from the Defence force of New Zealand come to our school and talk about what is it to be in army and in the war. We use put a poppy in the cross to show respect to the soldier died in WW1. In our school we have are own commemoration for armistice day, we have a minute of silence to think about those soldier that risk their lives for our country. One of our teacher Ms Kirkpatrick, read a poem "In Flander's Field".

Armistice Day

This term for Inquiry we were learning about World War 1. Today we made a DLO that shows a collage of the Armistice Day. The Armistice day is the end of the world war 1 which was in 1918. The reason we are learning about World War 1 is that this year is the 100 years of the Armistice day. I worked with Miki to complete this task. 

Collaborative Comprehension - Battle of the Somme

Today for reading we are learning about the Battle of the Somme. For this activity I work with Mataio, we work collaboratively and help each other. I learnt that the war last 4 months and I learnt that the word catastrophic means hectic or crazy. The Battle of the Somme, it was a battle between British and German but it started between French and German. French soldier order British army to help them beat German soldiers, but at the first day of the war many young British soldier die. The most challenging question for me was 'Explain in your own words what the British plan was?' because I need to make my own opinion.